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4 Historias Aterradoras De Brujas Que Te Helarán La Sangre - Historias De Terror - Voces De La Noche · Niebla en el bosque con Evelith von

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By discretion. I won' t give my name, but it' s
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important to mention that I was born in a beautiful sighted town, a small
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village on the tip of a hill. My grandparents and other brothers lived there,
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but from a very young age, my parents brought me to live in
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prayer to study high school. However, it was our custom to visit the
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village at least twice a year, during the holiday season, specifically during Easter
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and on the dead day dates. Personally, whenever I visited the village,
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I liked to play in the middle of the herbs very attached to the hill
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skirt. In addition, there were rather old stables or stables and they were
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not in use, which turned into a wooden shed where they built a raised
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platform that is made under the roof of a house and used to store things
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or to sleep. On one of those occasions, when it was the days
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of the deceased faithful, I stayed playing in that place and without realizing it,
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the hours passed quickly, so the sun was about to hide. So
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I went back to my grandparents' house and when I got there, one
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of my uncles came over to talk to me. In that conversation he told
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me something that made me curious. He told me not to play so late
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near the sheds, as the witches went out on the very day of the
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dead and it was very dangerous, since they came down from the hill to
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do evils and if they did not take the children, they stole the animals,
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turned off the candlesticks and, if that were not enough, they would
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throw away the offerings. To be honest far from being frightened by my uncle
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' s words, they made me arouse a great curiosity, perhaps because at
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that time I would be about eleven years old and I was not afraid of
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anything n o n s s. The r NR. I felt it inherited
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from my grandfather, who was nothing less than a lieutenant of the revolution and
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told us multiple accounts of encounters with witches. At that moment, I just
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thought that my uncle, being still quite young, it was natural that he
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would like to make some kind of joke to scare me, but my grandmother,
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who was close to us, heard the words my uncle was saying to
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me and by then the others were already integrated, my grandmother' s face
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reflected anger to the degree of drawing his attention strongly. He scolded him by
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saying not to speak ill of witches, as those damned ones feel when they
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seek or defame them, especially on the day of the dead. My grandfather
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also told him to shut up and remember what had happened to him years ago.
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It was better not to play with that and less on the day of
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the dead, as those witches could come back when they heard. That on
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my grandfather' s part grew more curiosity inside me to the point of wine.
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To urge my father to tell me what had happened. I wanted to
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know what everyone was talking about. My father hesitated for a couple of seconds,
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but in the end he agreed to tell me that story with a voice
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full of fear and concern told me the following long before I was born,
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when he and my uncles were still teenagers. Much of the family visited the
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village with the intention of taking flowers to the cemetery as the date of the
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day of death. He even remembered that some friends of Orizaba prepared to arrive.
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However, at that time the trip took from five to six hours,
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or perhaps a little longer, depending on the weather conditions and the type of
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the road from Orizaba, since in the village it was only land and that
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area was always covered with abundant fog, allowing to see only one or two
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meters in extreme situations. The journey on the mere day of the dead was
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obvious catarium, but just on that occasion they wanted to arrive a day earlier
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than expected and, the worst, unannounced, they left at eleven o'
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clock in the morning and arrived at about five o' clock, just on
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thirty- one October, Halloween, when the fog made the town look darker,
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darker and darker than usual. Grandparents, of course, waited for them
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the next day, as they were not yet ready to receive them and,
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above all, thought to receive fewer people from whom they arrived, because only
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ten people could comfortably sleep in the house. When the family arrived and the
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friends had a coffee with a bread. Grandma gave them to eat tamales that
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she would put in the offering and then they began to talk for a long
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time until eight o' clock in the night. After that, some friends
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and family went to rest, but the younger ones stayed talking for a couple
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of hours. Shortly afterwards, my grandfather and one of his brothers sent for
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him to accompany them to the barn, which was approximately ten meters from the
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house, but it was enough distance to get lost between mango trees and orange
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trees. Likewise, the corn they had sown was very high and covered almost
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everything. When they arrived there, they began to sweep the wooden floor of
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one of the rooms and put some cots to sleep. When they finally finished
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sweeping, they returned to the house for their rest. Once my grandfather saw
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that they had already settled in, he gave them good night and went home
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to rest. They were already tired, so they immediately fell asleep. However,
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something frightening was about to begin. Before midnight. A noise woke Grandpa
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up. It was as if an animal with huge claws spiders to the wood
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of the barn. That noise caused him great trouble and, above all,
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concern, and that, of course, made him nervous and from that moment
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on he could no longer sleep that thing. Or animal hit the wooden walls.
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My grandfather, thinking he might be a thief, started hitting the wall
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of his bedroom, but trying not to wake up to the visits that brought
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two almost newborn babies. This situation was strange. They who slept in the
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barn did not listen to anything and their father, who was in the house,
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if he could perceive it, He was very observant and perfectly recognized all
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kinds of sounds, and that in particular, was not provoked by a person
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or by any animal in the area. The noise continued. It was such
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a gloomy sound that my grandfather hit the walls hard making his brothers wake up
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asking what was going on at the time. The babies got scared and looked
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innocently into the sky as if something was stalking them. My very nervous grandfather
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told his brothers to shut up and keep quiet. For a few seconds they
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obeyed and heard the same noise, although they simply told him that he was
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an animal that caused that sound and that it came from the barn. The
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friends who had also woken up at the time told my grandfather to sleep better
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and not to worry. He was probably a harmless animal and would go the
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same way he came in. Not an hour passed when Grandpa woke him up
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again, the same insistent noise was like when the corn was broken. That
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alerted my grandfather to the point of telling his brothers that it was not possible
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for them to keep ignoring that the event was happening. I was sure the
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witches were hanging around and it was because they had sensed the smell of the
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babies. On the other hand, the noise was heard closer and closer to
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the house. In spite of that, his brothers, with a great heaviness
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for the dream they felt, told him that he was only an animal and
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that he better try to keep calm, but in that they heard how the
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wood began to crack and the ceiling of the barn, which was made of
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foil, began to sound like they carved it among themselves. It was then
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that my father woke up frightened and quickly moved his brothers and cousins, who
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began to be startled by the sound immediately, took their lamps to light and
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search for what he had provoked. Such a fuss was an animal and they
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had to scare him away. From there, as soon as possible, it
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was heard as if something jumped from the ground to the top of the barn
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to the point of making the horses and cows nervous. Similarly, the dogs
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knew that the danger was near and howled as when they saw a dead man,
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but this time it was not a ghostly entity. They began to get
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upset as a gnash was heard coming from the top of the barn. With
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every passing second he was approaching where they were lying. That which he walked
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was of great weight because it made the wood that bore the sheets crack.
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Soon they heard something moved between the trees and jumped on the roof. That
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animal made a strange sound, very similar to when the guajolotes are angry,
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but in a terrifying tone. This alarm was so intense that he could hear
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himself to the house where the visitors were. Fear and, at the same
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time, curiosity caused them to intend to go outside to see if they saw
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what caused such riots. But when they opened the door, they saw that
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everything was covered by fog. It was so thick that they couldn' t
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tell the path that connected the house to the barn. The only thing possible
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to observe was the glow of the orange lights of the public lighting that were
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in the village square. Seeing this chilling situation, they went back in,
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as it caused them great fear to observe that everything was dark. Once inside
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they sat on their thoughts, thinking that they were possibly playing or trying to
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scare them away, but they didn' t entirely believe it was true,
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as babies from the village and other localities were lost years ago. Just in
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case, several animals amanated without a single drop of blood. The worst is
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that there were people who saw huge birds roam the sky and among the mountain
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trails they observed several cats, dogs, blacks and horses. They were the
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damned witches with the satanic gift of mutating on any animal and the culprits of
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those acts. My grandfather took his rifle and waited for the witches to demonstrate.
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The dogs stopped howling and began barking at Anna announcing that the witches were
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near that night. His cousins, being inhabitants of the city and unaware of
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many things that happen in the villages, were frightened. They couldn' t
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react. They thought what stalked them was a dangerous animal. The noises weren
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' t that loud anymore. It seemed that the witches noticed that they had
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been discovered and kept silent. In the end they knew it was their fault
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for making fun of a witch and laughing at her on the day of the
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dead outside in the middle of the fog. It was heard that other beasts
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were around. They seemed to be looking for something with insistence. Meanwhile,
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my grandfather, in the distance, waited for the opportune moment to kill those
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creatures who arrived without being invited. In a second everything was absolutely silent and
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only the brush of the leaves of the Milpa was heard when suddenly it was
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heard that something very heavy fell on the ceiling of the barn. That was
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huge in size, as everything shook and then fell a second and a third
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animal. In a nutshell, it was a complete pack of bloodthirsty beasts and
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they had smelled the babies and looked for them with insistence in the barn.
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It was because their cousins carried the little ones for several hours and possibly those
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witches confused their scent thinking they were with us. It was heard as the
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sheets of the ceiling moved as if sharp claws tried to remove them to enter
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the door. He staggered as if everything were going to fall due to excess
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weight, which caused his uncles and grandfather to run wild to help us,
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carrying with them, machetes, sticks and a lamp. They wanted to run
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to the house. They were screaming and screaming in fear. My grandfather was
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very upset because they got in with them and had entered their land without permission,
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he pointed his gun at the barn and said they had surely mocked the
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witches and then my father and his frightened cousins said that there was a strange
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creature in the barn, which was heard eating the stored corn and in turn
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tore the walls with its huge claws. My grandfather yelled at them saying that
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he was no beast and it was better not to tell lies. So he
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ordered us into the house. As they searched the barn in detail, they
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approached with hand lamps and sticks. They carefully entered the main room of the
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barn and observed that the farm animals were restless and, above all, frightened.
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Seeing that there was nothing there, they decided to go up to the
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top. First one of my grandfather' s brothers went up, while the
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rest was down as he went up. He heard strange sounds, like when
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someone was looking for something and without thinking twice he fired a couple of shots,
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hoping that what caused the scandal would go away, but it didn'
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t happen like that, without having another alternative, he kept going up,
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but when he finished going up, he started shooting in despair and at that
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moment the others went up to see what was going on. They appreciated it
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with horror to go out in a pack. Many deformed birds had human parts,
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feathers, and some had a woman’ s face. There was no
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way to describe these witches. They looked like owls or zopilots. It was
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as if they were formed by different parts of animals one by one came out
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of a hole they made in the walls of the barn, immediately getting lost
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in the thick fog. They were completely stunned. They could not mention any
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word for the impression after such a chilling scene. They returned home to join
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the family and wait for the cocksong and the sunrise, but once it arrived
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the other day everything returned to normal. As usual, my grandfather got up
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early to go see his milpa. However, he became very upset and argued
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with Grandma because he could not find his military boots. At about ten in
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the morning he returned from his grounds and gathered in the small courtyard for breakfast
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and, of course, to talk about the witches. But when they found
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out that my grandfather' s boots had been lost, they certainly thought the
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witches had been the cause. Because of the early morning event, they made
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the decision to check the barn and see if there was something missing like seeing
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the conditions in which it was in. Supposedly, by the strong blows of
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the witches this would be in bad shape. They went to see that he
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was in order and, to his surprise, everything was as if nothing had
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happened. The barn was intact, its roof in its onus and the sheets
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undamaged. The wood was in good condition. My unsettled grandfather went up in
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the company of one of his brothers to the tapanco, where they saw those
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witches. It was then that he was paralyzed. His brother asked him what
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was going on because he had stopped where he was completely ordered as he used
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to be. But at the center of the tapanco were his boots, which
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were perfectly tied from the bottom up, just as he liked when the night
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came and when he was with an entire family, again it was our turn
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to sleep in the barn, but this time both his uncles and dad decided
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to sleep with them. Only that they slept on the top, in the
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tapanco, in the company of a rifle loaded with blessed bullets, a cross
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and salt My grandfather told my father that most of the night he spent it
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awake looking up, waiting for those witches to return them. However, they
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did not return. Some time later, they learned that these witches were familiar
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with people with whom they had some problems, since envy is never lacking or
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they do not know how to fix things in a good way and it is
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easier for them to resort to evil. Instead of talking head- on.
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Listening to the story my father told me, I couldn' t believe that
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both he and my grandfather had gone through that experience and now I knew that
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my uncles didn' t want to scare me, but to protect me.
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Since that day I know that it is not good to speak of witches on
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the very day of the dead, since they hear the far away and can
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become present. I' d like to tell my story because it seems like
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a way to release all the stress I' ve felt lately, as nights
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have been heavy Sometimes I can' t even sleep because of fear and my
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days are a constant of sleep and anxiety. Well, my name is Mauricio
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and it all started a few years ago, specifically at the elementary school where
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I was studying. Here, in the state of Puebla. It was very
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common for us to be given free tickets or with very good discounts for children
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' s plays. The truth is that I thank my parents, who made
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the effort to take me to most shows and brought me closer to culture and
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art from an early age. I loved attending those kinds of events. I
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was excited about every ticket I got, because that meant an afternoon full of
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laughter and joy to me. But there was a particular play that I found
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very difficult to forget. That was a very unfortunate day, as my grandfather
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was in very poor health and my parents had to go to the hospital,
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but considering that it was not a place to let children in, they asked
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a cousin to take me to a play for which we had previously bought tickets.
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Of course, they would pay him and that cousin of about twenty years
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accepted the work. It would be in a theater north of the city.
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But, to my surprise and ignorance of my parents, my cousin' s
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boyfriend was going to accompany us. We brought only two tickets, but arriving
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at the theater, they asked how long the show would last and my cousin
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came alone with me to the theater just to leave me in one place and
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tell me that she would see me at the end of the show, that
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I would not get too far away from the door and left me in that
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theater that was extremely dark, only with a blue light pointing to the center
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of the stage. I was excited, because it would be a puppet and
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puppet show, something I enjoyed a lot, but apparently the general public didn
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' t feel the same way I did. The theater was extremely empty,
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with no more than fifteen people being in the room that afternoon. I didn
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' t care about that. After all, it was a family show and
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it could go wrong. When that blue light suddenly went out and little applause
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was heard in the room and a sound began to come out of the theater
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' s speakers. It looked like music, but there was something wrong with
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it. I thought it was a mistake, as it was playing backwards.
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It lasted several minutes, as well, several minutes in which nothing happened on
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the stage. Suddenly and in the face of the discomfort that that meant,
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one of the assistants, an older man began to boo as demanding that the
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work begin. From the stage. A cry was heard, a cry that
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rudely asked the man to shut up at once. That was extremely unusual,
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but there was no time for anyone to claim, because a figure appeared on
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the scene, a very beautiful woman and a very delicate physicist, was dressed
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in fairy. The whole stage remained dark, but the black lights made his
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dress glow phosphorescent in the dark. I remember perfectly that she told us what
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the story was going to be about would be the journey of Stephen, a
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boy who would go through a series of obstacles to save his friend. Of
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the misfortune, I was really excited, even though I missed my parents.
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It was always more fun to be with them, plus I felt safer.
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Anyway, with that introduction appeared Esteban' s puppet, who pretended to be
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a boy about ten years old, just the same age as I was,
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and again there seemed to be a problem. The puppet was the figure of
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an old man, like those rustic puppets that sell in many towns of Mexico
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or the eggs that dance at festivals. The story, moreover, was strange
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ernesto. On his way he traveled through churches, schools and a park looking
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for his friend Javier, But within the fantasy of that staging, Esteban fought
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with priests with the teachers and even with his friends, trying to reach his
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destination. It was an uncomfortable play, to say the least if the script
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seemed to have been written. At the last minute, people began to get
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out of the annoying show, but what would I do if I was alone
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there in the theater. Fortunately, a few rows. Right in front of
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me was a lady with her son. They didn' t leave. They
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stayed with me in the room until the end, until the climax of the
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story came, when Esteban found his friend Javier in his own room and he
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asked him where he had been, and Javier replied that the witches had taken
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him. Three old women with long, sharp nails had killed him, who
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had dragged him into hell itself, but who had allowed him to return to
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the world to take him to him. Esteban then started screaming desperate screamed that
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he didn' t want to leave. They were heartbreaking screams and at that
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time, from various points on stage, three puppets of old women came out.
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There were three witches walking and flying around Stephen. Then more very strange
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puppets came out, as if they were demons, if you could see puppeteers
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dressed in black trying to get lost in the darkness of the stage. At
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this point everything was already very strange and frankly terrifying, at least for a
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child, as I was in the horn. That reverse music was starting to
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sound again. At that time, Javier' s puppet told Esteban that they
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were going to go to Hell together, that the witches would kill him to
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take him away and so they could be together. But he didn' t
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do it with the normal voice he' d been using the whole play,
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his child voice. This time, the voice of that puppet was the voice
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of a man, a man with a very serious voice. Suddenly a flowery
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blue door that pretended to be a closet in Esteban' s room was opened
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and something frightening came out of it. It wasn' t a puppet or
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a puppet. She was like a woman with a pointed nose and a torn
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face, with some strands of hair attached to her body and large horns.
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His enormous yellow eyes also shone with black light. Right now. The lady
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in front of me, got up in a hurry to get her son out,
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so she wouldn' t stop crying. I won' t deny it.
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I was also very upset and screaming. If not bad, I remember
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getting up and running with that woman who was a stranger, but I asked
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her to get me out of there while on stage the black light went out
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and a normal white light was gradually turning on what was there in front of
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us on stage. They were not puppeteers dressed in black, they were old
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women completely painted from head to toe. What came out of the closet was
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also a woman, or at least that' s what I want to believe.
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He looked like a very thin person, painted also totally black and with
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long hair strands watered all over his body. It was a very frightening image.
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The lady who took pity on me took my hand and took me out
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of there without letting me turn outside. There was no one at the theater
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reception and no one at the lockers, so there was no one who could
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complain to that woman. It was only ten minutes before my cousin came back,
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ten minutes that I ended up waiting alone on the street, as that
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woman retired soon. From there I felt strange, disturbed and the image of
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that person with yellow eyes did not come out of my head. My cousin
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showed up a few minutes before the hour and all I could do was run
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and hug her and start crying. I don' t even know why.
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Maybe it was the impression and the stress. I told her what had happened,
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but she made me promise that I wouldn' t say anything to my
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parents and that afterwards I would feel better, but that, please, I
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wouldn' t say anything, but they would scold her. I was so
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scared and that fear didn' t go away. The following nights I began
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to experience things at home, things I had never perceived until that moment.
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Noises at night, light movements in my bed and sometimes I felt like I
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was being called by my name. They were voices I didn' t know
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and eventually I had to tell my parents. All that happened one night when
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I woke up hysterical crying to the seas and fear completely taking over me.
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I had dreamed of that puppet show. I dreamt I was in that theater
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watching that same horrible staging. But when those demon puppets began to appear somehow,
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I stopped being a spectator to place myself in the place of the puppet
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that starred in the play. At that moment I began to hear many voices,
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whispering in my ears voices that I did not understand and that seemed to
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be crying out for something but that I could not understand. Suddenly. Before
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me was the door of the closet, that door that shone with the black
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light of the stage and that gradually began to open. From it came a
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completely black hand with very long fingers and nails, few strands of hair growing
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all over his arm. I remember feeling my heart like a drum beating my
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chest and that sensation was what eventually caused me to open my eyes, just
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when in my dream or nightmare, that demonic being ended up walking out that
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door of the closet, standing before me. However, just as I opened
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my eyes to awaken from that horrible dream. In my room, in my
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royal room, the two doors of the closet were completely open. Even in
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the darkness of the night. There was something very clear. There an elongated
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figure protruded a black face that slowly rose and let me see his eyes very
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large yellow eyes, really it was horrible, and then he pulled out his
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claws and began to say my name. First it was just the voice of
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an old woman, but then two more were heard and suddenly those witches started
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coming out of the closet in my direction. One of them began to laugh
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and the others announced that they would take me to hell. The tears ran
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down my face. They were the first thing I could feel before I could
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even move. I got up hysterical and yelled at my parents without being able
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to stop crying, even though I was only ten years old. I think
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that' s when I' ve been closer to having a heart attack.
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Of course, my parents didn' t believe me, at least not at
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all, and they ended up telling me it was just a nightmare. A
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few days later, my mom asked my cousin about what happened and she denied
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everything, in fact, even invented it that she had tried the play.
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He told her that since she didn' t want to buy me popcorn,
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that' s why I was mad at her and had invented that. I
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was very angry, but I couldn' t convince my parents that she was
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the one lying. Anyway, the realities that a few of my classmates,
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their parents, took to those plays, but eventually I ended up meeting a
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couple of children who had also attended that play on very different dates and their
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experience was totally different from mine. They had seen an innocent and completely familiar
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play. I always wondered to myself that if perhaps I had not dreamed,
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since there was no record of anything like what I had seen, while those
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nightmares appeared again and again without stopping. It was until my grandmother, during
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the holidays, when I went to stay at her house, she decided to
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make me a clean one using white sage and eggs, because she was the
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only one who believed what had happened to me. He told me that witches
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often took advantage of such events to take the children and devour them to live
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longer. My grandmother told me that when I was a child, the witches
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had taken her sister, who had gone for firewood one very cold night and
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never came back. She did those cleans to me every day I was with
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her and eventually I felt better. And even though that horror never left me,
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the truth is that the nightmares disappeared and I was finally able to go
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back to sleep peacefully after a little more than three months of physical wear and
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tear for not being able to rest at all. This happened almost thirty years
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ago, thirty years ago in which, despite having generally overcome it, the
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reality is that I am constantly frightened by demonic images or witches, by any
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strange noise at night or by yellow lights in the dark. Once I almost
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fell into a nervous breakdown when I visited the countryside and saw two bright lights
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among the trees, which turned out to be fireflies, although well, I
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think it' s obvious to say that surely the witches would no longer want
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to come for an adult, but that doesn' t leave me alone that
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feeling of being watched all the time is always there. I know you may
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not want to eat me anymore, but maybe you' ll drag me to
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hell. Many times I thought that the puppets of Esteban and Javier were actually
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children that the witches actually took away. But, in time, I'
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ve improved, I' ve gone to therapy, and I' ve done
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everything that' s within my reach. I' ve even received hypnosis and
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I' m better every day. Or, well, every day had been
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better. I guess after this I told you, it' s contradictory that
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I like to consume with a lot of terror, but I think I'
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ve found some pleasure in the release of renalin, although there were times,
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it doesn' t allow me to sleep. A few days ago, however,
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they were listening again to some horror stories and just one of those days
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I put on the TV just when I was lying down to sleep. I
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ended up falling asleep with the TV on and the automatic playback activated. Honestly,
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I don' t know how long it would be, but I woke
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up still at night. The truth is, I didn' t open my
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eyes right away and I took a moment to try to sleep again. But
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as I tried to reconcile the dream again, I heard that the stories were
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over and had been replaced by the sound of voices that seemed to be singing,
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but seemed to be playing. Reverse. He didn' t even distinguish
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himself in screams, whispers or simple words, but the fear began to take
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hold of me At that moment I tried to calm myself, I tried to
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reach remote control, but I couldn' t feel it in the place where
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I thought I had left it. I ended up opening my eyes to look
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for him. Control had fallen out of bed and I picked it up immediately
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to turn off the TV. But before I could do it just for a
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second, the screen almost totally black, let me see something strange, something
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that seemed familiar to me, but terrifying. The static image was that of
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a room at night poorly lit by a blue light. There was only one
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wall with what looked like the front door on the left side and the other
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side with the wardrobe door. The latter was slightly open and on the floor
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two puppets that looked old were recharged as if they were peeking into the room
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from inside the closet were handled by strings that were fully visible and hung from
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a wooden cross. To my horror, I was held by a completely black
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hand with long nails. Nothing else could be seen, but up almost to
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the height of the ceiling inside that closet, two yellow lights began to shine.
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Right now I felt like a flow of adrenaline. He walked all over
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my body from head to toe, much faster than my ability to react.
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The next thing I did was turn the TV down right away and I started
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hyperventilating and crying. After that I heard noise outside the room and then the
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door opened and there were the three old ladies, with their faces torn and
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their noses pointed. I cried out with all my might, imploring God to
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save me. Then one of those old ladies fell over me and scratched my
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chest with her claws, with a lot of fear, but wanting to live
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on. I started praying out loud, almost screaming, and then those old
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ladies disappeared. I was about to fall into a panic attack, but I
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got up I turned on the lights I took my cell phone and dialed my
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friends who are getting a lot of light. I didn' t sleep at
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all that night and the following nights. The nightmares are back and I feel
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like I' m going crazy. Three nights ago in the living room I
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saw clearly how a figure ran from my room to the bathroom, a small
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figure. Many would have thought it was a goblin or ghost children or something,
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but I' m pretty sure it was one of those puppets that looked
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old. I don' t hide this anymore. I' ve talked about
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it with friends and I' ve been recommended to adopt a cat, but
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the truth is that cats have always caused me a lot of allergy. Despite
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that, I' m really considering it as a possibility. Maybe it'
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s better to live morbid all the time in a gripping rather than terrified,
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and I dreamt of those eyes again last night. I know those old ladies
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are stalking me and I' m afraid the day will come when they catch
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me and drag me to hell, because I know that will be my end.
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I' d like to talk about the worst experience I' ve ever
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had in my life. I start by saying that the place where I live
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is a very nice place, in Veracruz, which is surrounded by mountains,
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It is perfect and beautiful. Nearby there are several very beautiful villages, which
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are filled with tourists. There you can enjoy real regional tourism yourself. It
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is we locals who take advantage of every long holiday or vacation to breathe that
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air. Pure that only those places can give us that was the case when
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one weekend of the year two thousand six, in the month of December,
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carnival time, together with my brother Daniel and everyone with our respective girlfriends,
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we decided to travel to some places near there to spend a few days of
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rest. We knew from before that the first village chosen would be full of
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tourists for those dates, which is why we went ahead to communicate with a
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lady who always rented us a place for every occasion we went. However,
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the terrifying events that I am going to tell you did not happen there,
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but in two nearby villages. I prefer not to mention the places not to
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create their management, since, along with those we were victims, we consider
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that it is not prudent to do so because of the number of people who
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visit them and that, therefore, would affect the tourist level they possess.
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Even so, we think that everyone is sufficiently aware that these kinds of events
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can occur anywhere in the world and therefore it is necessary to be prudent where
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one goes to spend his or her days of rest or vacation. We arrived
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on a Friday morning, settled in the lady' s house and then set
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out to enjoy the place. It was in the afternoon that we decided to
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go to another town, as we had organized ourselves like this and would spend
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several days touring. I must make it clear that this was the first time
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that we were going to that new town, which forced us to look for
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accommodation that was available to spend that night and the next. That' s
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how we got to a lady who rented her apartment for days, but she
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was on the edge of the place. This really turned out to be positive,
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since, as in that case the town was not so large, it
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allowed us to enjoy both the landscapes that surrounded us and the sector where the
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festivities that the municipality organized for visitors were held. That night we stayed until
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the early morning, enjoying music and drinks at a bar in the center Then
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we returned to the apartment. Honestly, I' d like to comment that
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none of the four of us were alcoholized. This I say because the falcon
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was not the cause of the first event for bad rules that we suffered happened.
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When we were already in the apartment. My brother and his girlfriend went
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to sleep and I too were very tired and that' s why we all
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fell down when we touched the bed. But something within a few minutes woke
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us up was the sound of someone walking in the apartment room, but the
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footprints were strong as if they were doing it on purpose to wake us up.
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It was someone walking in heels going from one side to the other,
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like in circles. My girlfriend was the first to notice, and that'
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s why she woke me up. He told me someone was in the apartment.
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I tried to reassure her that maybe she was the lady in the apartment
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who had gone for something, although obviously it wasn' t right. If
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it had been like that, since when they rent you a place, the
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owners can' t enter anything like that. But, well, that'
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s what made the most sense to me, even though I was thinking it
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was the lady. I must admit, there was something weird going on that
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night. It was as if the temperature had dropped and there was even fog,
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but the atmosphere was tense and uncomfortable, as if something was not right.
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I don' t know how to explain it. I just knew it.
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I told my girlfriend I' d get up to see, but she
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said no, that I' d better hope that if it was bad,
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I tried to reassure her and told her that nothing would happen, although deep
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down I was afraid, but the moment I was going to put a foot
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on the floor, someone knocked on the door of the room. It was
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my brother who asked me if we had heard that too. I said yes
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and asked him if he had seen anyone in the room, but he told
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me that he had checked everything and there was no one. Then we realized
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that maybe she had been the owner and that she was already gone. But
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when my brother left the room and went to his room, we heard a
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cry of horror. We went out to see and it was my brother lying
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on the floor of the living room and a woman dressed in black and with
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red heels with her teeth on my brother' s head. I was amazed
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and my girlfriend screamed even louder that made my brother' s girlfriend leave immediately
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and when she saw that scene the woman in red heels was shocked, she
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had no hair. His head was full of dry blood and his hands had
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huge claws. With all the courage I had at the time, I yelled
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at him to get out of here and a lot of rudeness until from one
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moment to the next, the woman disappeared. My brother was lying on the
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floor crying in fear, until the time came when we all cried out of
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the impression. We had no idea what had happened, but we were scared
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to death. Together we prayed a prayer and decided to stay the four of
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us in a single, fourth, the two girls in bed and my brother
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and I on the floor. For anything, anyway, it was not long
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before the light of day entered through it the window and surely everything would be
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better to tell the truth. I couldn' t sleep a bit after that,
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and I doubt any of them actually did it, because it was an
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experience that marked us. My brother. His teeth were more like fangs embedded
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in his head and that was the fervent proof that we weren' t crazy.
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Anyway, the day came and we tried to forget that horrible event.
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We went for a walk and to get to know different places where the sale
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of beer was at its peak. I knew that the atmosphere in those places
42:34
was getting heavy and for that reason I recommended that we not drink so many
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beers so that we are in optimal condition to live the day. To the
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fullest go for a walk to the mountains nearby or better still said that there
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was a small stream available for those who wanted to take a dip everyone started
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to give ideas about it. The girls were the ones that were most excited
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about my girlfriend, who took every opportunity to take pictures with her cell phone
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gift from her parents on her recent birthday. We spent the whole day from
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here to there and it was wonderful, so much so that we forgot for
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a while what had happened the night before. We went to the apartment again
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and the truth is that at that moment came the memory of what had happened
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before and we did not like that feeling, although it was already about two
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o' clock in the morning when we all fell asleep because of how tired
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we were and as it is the custom that I have to get up In
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the evenings I had to obey my needs and I got up from bed to
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go to the bathroom. I remember perfectly that my girlfriend woke up when I
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got up, I knew what I would do, so she proposed that I
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take her cell phone to light up on the road, as the bathroom was
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shared and they were at the end of a hallway, just where the line
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of apartments was ending up mumbling. I told him not to worry, that
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I' d get off quickly and come back. After all, I had
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heard voices in the vicinity, so I assumed there were tourists awake out there.
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However, it was not so. When I went out and started to
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tour the place, I realized that there was no one and that' s
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when I noticed the first strange thing. The voices that were being heard stopped
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immediately. For my good luck, the men' s room was vacant and
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when I was about to start doing my needs, those strange voices began to
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ring again. The women' s bathroom was glued to the men' s
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bathroom and it' s right through the wall that separated the two, where
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I heard them were voices of women who were apparently talking to each other.
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So far nothing seemed bad, until suddenly, the women changed their conversation so
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that now they begin to turn to someone else and a strong chill enveloped me
44:57
when I realized that it is they were talking about me. Those voices greeted
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me and I heard heels walking through the bathroom. They asked me if I
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wanted to have a good time with them, that I would not regret what
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caused me that chill. They were not in themselves the words they told me,
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but the way to do it. Their voices were snoring and at the
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same time they ended each sentence with a laugh, as if their only intention
45:24
was to mock me. However, the matter finally went on to a tremendous
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fear when they turned to me again to repeat the invitation, with the difference
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that they now added something else that puzzled me. One of them announced that
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she had enjoyed spending time with my brother the night before. He said his
45:45
blood was delicious. In fact, he said his name and also mentioned the
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girl' s name. The situation seemed impossible to me. No one knew
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our names, we hadn' t even given them to the lady who rented
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us the apartment. It was in two then that I saw myself in the
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need to answer them, not to accept the invitation, but rather to reproach
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them, for I was always a focused man. I asked them who they
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were to leave me in step. I' d call the police and how
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it was possible for them to know our names and I warned them I wasn
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' t afraid of them. And then a laugh roared around and I couldn
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' t believe what was going on. Suddenly, the women spoke to me
46:28
again, but at that moment their voices sounded right there inside the men'
46:31
s room as if they were within walking distance of me, and the heels
46:37
were rumbling on the floor of the bathroom. The women started talking to me
46:40
again telling me that they always got what they wanted and what they wanted at
46:45
the time was me that nothing and no one would stop them. I don
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' t even know how long it took me to get out of there.
46:53
The strong character with which I had just responded was now a mute terror.
46:59
As soon as I opened the door, something appeared out of nowhere and hit
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my face leaving me numb. It was all like a blink of an eye.
47:07
Suddenly he was dragged by something he couldn' t see. The only
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thing my eyes could perceive was like two shadows clinging to my arms, making
47:16
it impossible for me to escape. I remember having my mouth covered like a
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hand wouldn' t let me scream, but holding me with the same force
47:27
they had me in prison with. It was my girlfriend who saved me,
47:30
because when I heard her voice, pronouncing my name to ask where those two
47:36
women were, if you can call them that they released me instantly I fell
47:42
back on the floor, since in those last few seconds it was as if
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I were suspended a few centimeters, since I did not feel touch the ground
47:51
with my body. I screamed my girlfriend' s name, but I did
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it in such a panic that she responded desperate and almost in tears for being
47:59
scared. So she also swears that she saw nothing, simply that she was
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frightened to see me lying on the floor calling her terrified. The most disturbing
48:09
thing was to know that I was almost twenty meters from the bathroom in the
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dark and on my way to the darkest and most lonely area, being already
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in the room in the first instance, none of the three told me anything,
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they only dedicated themselves to listening to me when I told them what had
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just happened to me with their visibly fearful faces. Even my brother left at
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a given moment to check the hallway. But the only ones he met were
48:37
those who occupied the neighboring departments, who, hearing my screams, had gone
48:43
out to know what had happened in vain. He went to talk to them,
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since they were as confused as we were. After a few minutes,
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I convinced them to stay inside the room and never leave again. That night
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it was hard for me to sleep, as I was trembling with fear until
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I finally fell asleep. I knew that one of those women was the one
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who had hurt my brother, and that scared me and gave me a lot
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of courage at dawn. They asked me what I wanted to do if I
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stayed or went straight home. I tried to play fort, but I couldn
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' t hide the fear I still felt that I was transmitting to the two
49:27
girls. We left that apartment with our things and went straight to the house
49:31
of the lady who had rented us the place, thinking maybe she could give
49:37
us an explanation for the nightmare I had just experienced. According to the lady,
49:45
perhaps it would have been the same tourists who visited the village who,
49:49
without a doubt, were drunk and who only wanted to make a joke to
49:53
me. This bearing in mind that I was not robbed of anything I had
49:58
with me, as well as the fact that I was freed when my girlfriend
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went out to look for me, but even though I repeated over and over
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again that the voices belonged to women and that both had no physical body,
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but appeared to be spirits with shadow forms. They kept quiet as if they
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didn' t know what to say about it. What caught our attention the
50:21
most was his reserved attitude, as it seemed to us that he was hiding
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something from us at noon. We had lunch in the same town and left
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there on the way. We ran into another town, one that was before
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we got home beyond the fear I had, the idea was that I was
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ruining everyone' s stay, which didn' t seem fair to me.
50:45
So we looked for a place to stay and although I had a hard time
50:52
convincing them they accepted, we ended up settling in another place, where only
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on the second and third floors there were apartments, since on the bottom there
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was a lounge where food was served for tenants. That didn' t make
51:06
it necessary for us to look much longer. After walking around town, we
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went back to the apartment for dinner. It also had a terrace that provided
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a view of the whole place and once we finished eating, we decided to
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go up for a while. It was only 12 o' clock at night,
51:24
when all four of us were left on the terrace at once. The
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girls wanted to get ahead and go to the room to prepare everything for the
51:35
rest we gave. Only my brother and I didn' t spend much time
51:39
when everything became horrible and scary. As much as on that occasion we were
51:44
two who were present. Those apparitions had no mercy for any of them.
51:50
The body became paralyzed when I began to hear those same voices. I just
51:54
went on to tell my brother what it was about, as I instantly saw
51:59
him fall slowly on his back and then be dragged and turned around with intentions
52:04
of helping him. The fear was indescribable to see that one of those figures
52:09
was standing right in front of me. Now I could see that he had
52:15
a face, which represented that of an old woman, whose eyes stood out
52:19
before the blackness of her figure and her head had no hair at all.
52:23
Then I realized that it was a witch and there they were both. Again,
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one imprisoned my brother by keeping him still and silent on the ground,
52:35
while the other fell upon me to do the same. I' m not
52:38
going to go into details of what they did to us, and I don
52:43
' t think there' s a need to clarify anything. I will only
52:45
tell you that, being in that state of paralysis, I sensed the most
52:49
shocking and disgusting experience a man can live against his will. The girls didn
52:53
' t find both unconscious. That' s why we couldn' t do
52:59
anything for them and then they told us that they barely came to help us
53:04
and didn' t know anything about what had happened to us. They were
53:06
attacked by the two fucking witches, but of course not in the same way
53:10
as us. They were left with their bodies paralyzed and full of scratches and
53:16
were saved because a couple went up to the terrace alerted by their requests for
53:22
help. We just wanted the sunrise, which was the schedule of the next
53:25
bus that would take us home, we were even questioned by the local police,
53:31
as everyone thought we were attacked by criminals. And once we got home,
53:36
my mother asked us what had happened to us, as we still had
53:40
the pale faces because of the immense fear lived. We told them everything by
53:46
begging her to believe us. Our surprise was great when we told ourselves that
53:51
he believed us, because in some villages there are such condemned women, but
53:57
he had never heard the miserable ones do something like that to them, something
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tourists already in our city. And after about two months of what happened,
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that' s when my girlfriend decided to end the relationship. By questioning his
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motive. She told me something she wanted to keep secret until then. According
54:15
to my girlfriend, while she was attacked by that shadow, she heard a
54:21
voice that told her that I would never be hers, since she would chase
54:24
me wherever I went. I mean, even though my brother and I never
54:28
told them what the witches did to us, my girlfriend was threatened by one
54:31
of them so she wouldn' t continue with me, she thought nothing would
54:37
happen, but since she could never overcome the macabre experience, she chose to
54:42
get away from me directly. The opposite is the case of the bride,
54:45
of my brother, because today she is already his wife. But it seems
54:49
that the experience brought drastic and sad consequences, for so far they never managed
54:54
to have children. If you ask me why this happened to us, we
54:59
really don' t know. It is a repulsive mystery that, to be
55:02
honest, neither Brother nor I want to find out. We' re content
55:07
to know that we' re still alive and even though I still can'
55:13
t be a worse parent, I still can' t even have a partner.
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I am well aware that maybe we were at the wrong place and time,
55:21
simply being victims of what can cause innocent vacation days. My name is
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Carlos and I would like to tell my life story, mainly from my childhood,
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because a lot of things happened when I was a kid. Actually,
55:42
I learned a lot of things. I am not sure how things work for
55:45
children now so immersed in audiovisual media since childhood, and I am convinced that
55:51
this tide of information to which they are exposed interferes quite with the imagination that
55:55
for them should be an endless source of creation of fantastic worlds. At least
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for my generation, a cardboard box became anything our brain could dream of.
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Like that, thousands of images were formed in our brain, even though there
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was nothing just there this ability to create non- existent realities was what led
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many of us to experience the well- known case of imaginary friends, at
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least in our early ages. I, for example, had one of these
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imaginary friends. At first I felt I was even playing with me, but
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the reality is that I could never see it. I knew I was there,
56:44
playing games and taking care of myself at all times. However, it
56:47
was as if those early years his image were totally invisible to me. I
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could only hear his voice and even feel it near me, but it never
56:58
appeared. Physically, I remember that voice joking with me, advising me to
57:04
play games telling me what things were right to do and what not to do.
57:07
Sometimes I remember talking to me at night until I fell asleep. This
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kind of imaginary friend appeared when I was about to turn five and it was
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after turning six that it finally took a visual form. That voice now appeared
57:23
before me as a fully formed figure. This imaginary friend I was talking to
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didn' t have the classic look of a child, as they do many
57:35
times. On the contrary, he had the appearance of an adult man,
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a man wearing a coffee suit and his face was too thin and made up.
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At first, I thought it was like a clown like that I used
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to describe it, but in time I associated his face more with the make
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- up of Chinese programs that I accidentally came to see at home that way
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of describing it is not the best way for an imaginary friend. However,
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I was never afraid and the people I tell this story always start to feel
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chills only with the description of the physical aspect of this figure. After all,
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someone with red and white makeup on their face doesn' t sound completely
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friendly, but I never felt threatened by him. My mother, who knew
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perfectly well about her existence, didn' t seem scared either. In fact,
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on many occasions I felt that I was even glad that I played with
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him and never forbade me to speak with that creation of mine. Unfortunately,
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life always goes around and when I turned seven, my mother, who was
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my favorite person in the world, died very suddenly. In spite of this
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hard fact, I never really was afraid and I didn' t let myself
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be invaded by such a great sadness, in part because my imaginary friend told
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me that everything was going to be okay and that my mom was already with
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him, and that she would never leave me alone, although it was clear
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that I felt sad because my mother was the only thing I had in the
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world, apart from my imaginary friend, and she was gone. The loss
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of a mother at such an early age is always very hard, as at
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that time it is when it is most needed and sincerely, nothing is ever
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again the same. For those days without having a father to take refuge in,
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several family members seemed to throw their balls at each other trying to decide
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who would be in charge of me. Finally, some aunts decided to take
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me with them. Maribel, Mercedes and Rocío. They were three of my
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grandfather' s sisters that I totally didn' t know. They came from
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Puebla to my mother' s wake and, being single, offered to take
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me with them and provide me with whatever was necessary. No one in my
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family refused and I ended up leaving my beloved veracruz to go with them.
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I am confident that everything would be all right, as my faithful friend had
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said, although since they arrived I had not reappeared before me and hardly seemed
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to have heard his voice a couple of times without having been able to talk
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to him. In Puebla, the aunts had a beautiful old- style house
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that apparently belonged to their parents and they had never left. From there they
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installed me in a huge room and treated me with love and sweetness, at
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least in the beginning. To my surprise. A week after I was in
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my new home, another child arrived at the house, named Emilio, a
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little boy of my own age. A destitute lady had given them to the
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aunts in their inability to take care of him. Emilio and I immediately became
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very friends and settled in the same huge room. We share many talks and
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laughter. It was like having a brother of my own age. Those first
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few months I remember them still as the best days of my life, so
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much so that I did not even notice the absence of my imaginary friend with
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the days the aunts, who had shown themselves generous, began to act strange.
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They became extremely strict and fanatical of religion. Emilio and I were forced
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to pray the daily rosary and were absolutely in control of everything we did.
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Of course, television or radio stopped being an entertainment allowed for us and between
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sticks and punishments we always ended up spending a part of our day locked up
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as penance to something they considered wrong. One night I woke up after hearing
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a noise in my bedroom. I quickly joined my bed right after I opened
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my eyes and could hear horrible laughs that seemed to come from the room.
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My three days seemed to be tickling in a very creepy weird way. So
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to speak. It was at that moment that I felt a little bit of
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soft hands, taking my shoulders and making me lie down again. It was
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my imaginary friend telling me to be very careful and that for the moment I
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could not come to see me, but that I should always try to keep
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myself safe, of course, at that age. I didn' t quite
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understand what he meant, as the message was very rare to me. It
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was then that the aunts seemed to be silent and I heard them take strong
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steps going to our room, closed my eyes as I listened to them,
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opened the door, then turned on the light and entered all three abruptly and
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moored, asking who had been in our room. In my best performance,
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I remember falling asleep while my Aunt Maribel shook me wondering who had been in
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my room. I answered confused and yawning saying I didn' t know what
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I was talking about. The three of them came out in a whirlwind,
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leaving Emilio and me locked in that bedroom. From that night on, all
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three of them changed even more. Since that day. Those three women got
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much harder. They punished us for absolutely all of a few days, even
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reprimanding us just for seeing them in the eyes. In addition, they began
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to make us pray the rosary and read a series of religious books daily without
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fail, and that took us up to two hours of every day in the
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afternoon, leaving us little time for the fun and games a child needs.
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Returning to our very unhappy and stressful life at bedtime, the aunts also began
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to lock us both up, arguing that we were forbidden to leave our rooms,
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which sometimes left Emilio and I to do our needs in a toilet that
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the aunts personally took care of emptying in the morning. However, the punishments
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did not bend us and finally, accompanied by each other was EMI of Ons
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and I were able to endure all the vices for those days, well,
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almost all, because one of the things that at that time filled us with
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terror were neither the reprimands, the blows or the punishments. What really scared
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us were the nights, those nights where we were locked up and where we
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could listen to the aunts, laugh with laughter those horrible laughs, which seemed
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to come from the ground floor, but also from the courtyard. We even
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thought we heard them walking away, laughing like they were leaving the house at
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night. That sound would freeze the blood and put chicken skin in a way
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I couldn' t explain. One night I remember going to sleep and being
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woken up abruptly by hands that covered my mouth tightly preventing me from shouting or
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saying something in front of the startle. It was Emilio' s hands,
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who with a terrified gesture, asked me to keep quiet and so I did.
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Emilio took his hands off my face or I sat her down on my
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bed and I paid attention to the other side of the door a few steps
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were heard anxiously coming and going tirelessly. Suddenly they seemed not only to be
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the feet of one person, but of two and after three who were there
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a few meters from us. Those three people began to laugh in a way
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that seemed like greasy birds I remember how my skin stood that night, Emilio
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was also terrified in some way and unable to explain how I heard the voice
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of my imaginary friend inside my head that told me to be careful, without
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me being able to locate where I came from or where I was. Emilio
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and I began to feel a heaviness that made us fall asleep, despite the
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fear in that dream that night I could see my imaginary friend going to see
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me and telling me again that everything would be fine, that I only had
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to endure a little or more and that soon everything would improve. That dream
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comforted me in a very strange way and I was able to sleep peacefully for
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the next few hours no matter what was going on outside our room. During
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the following nights I continued to wake up from those horrid laughter outside our door.
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But also after doing so, I always felt that heaviness that led me
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to a placid and deep dream, making me care nothing more Exactly a week
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later, the aunts were more anxious and annoyed that they usually looked more demacrated
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than normal and kept saying that they were sick of us, sick of Emilio,
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sick of me, even though we always complied with everything they told us
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and we followed their absurd rules. That night, the last one I spent
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there, everything got out of control in ways that I still find it hard
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to believe. I remember that that day I went to sleep and for some
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reason, the fear that Emilio had towards my aunts that night made him put
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a chair between my bed and the door, preventing it from opening completely.
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We slept together and for the next few hours I had a very strange dream.
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The imaginary friend who visited me found me in a church and told me
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that I should run to that place without stopping carrying what was under the stairs
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at my aunts' house. Then I remember him hugging me very hard.
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That hug was very warm and comforting. While I was in his arms,
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I remember repeating to myself that he would always be with me, that he
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would always take care of me. And before saying goodbye, I remember that
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this imaginary friend reminded me that the Church was the most important place, no
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matter what happened. I was supposed to get there. We were woken up
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by horrible blows and again by those terrifying laughter and turning towards the door,
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Emilio and I saw that those blows were those of the door, crashing violently
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against the chair, that chair that prevented whatever was on the other side could
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not enter our room and at last, as children, Emilio and I began
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to scream terrified, while that which was on the other side of the door
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seemed to put a hand through the crack that remained slowly trying to open it
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a horrible hand skinny and deformed entered through that small opening groping as if trying
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to remove that chair that prevented it from passing. However, by not being
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able to do so, after a few minutes of struggle, that hand withdrew,
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just like the thing or person out there. Emilio and I heard a
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few steps running down the stairs and then something that came out of the house
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screaming and walking away. I told Emilio that I should put on my shoes,
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while I put on mine and once ready I took him by the shoulders
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and told him that it was of the utmost importance that we run towards the
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Church without stopping. I remember shaking when I pulled the chair out of the
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door I opened and ran out with Emilio behind me. He left the house,
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but I was late looking for what my imaginary friend told me was under
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the stairs. I remember it was a lump made by black- colored,
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frayed rags that wrapped elongated things. I did not stop to carry out all
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the work I had to carry that lump in my hands and began to run
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towards the temple of the colony, which was about four blocks away. I
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had to hurry to get there, because Emilio was probably there and besides,
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those squawks were already heard in the distance as if they came after me sniffing
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what I had with me. Despite the early hours, the church door was
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slightly open. I pushed her with my body as I shouted at Emilio to
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help me. The moment the lump touched the floor, horrible screams rang out
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in the distance, as if it were magic a heaviness seized me at that
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moment, making me fall asleep on the floor. Almost immediately the next morning,
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the sacristan gently lifted me from the ground wondering who I was and what
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I was doing there. I clumsily explained to him what had happened and he
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took those rags off the floor, taking them with him to a room inside
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and never told me what my aunts were holding, but Emilio, my partner
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of those weeks, disappeared. I don' t even know how, but
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a few days later I went to get a young woman from Veracruz who also
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claimed to be my aunt and, as I didn' t know much of
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the family, I had to go with her without asking many questions, although
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she died of fear that my luck would repeat itself. It wasn' t
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like that. That woman, my angelic mother, as I called her for
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many years, was my father' s sister. She told me how my
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mother had taken us away from the whole family and how my father had suddenly
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died in circumstances that still cannot be explained today. When we arrived at his
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house in Veracruz, I remember seeing a photo hanging on the wall that made
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me surprise myself to tears. I didn' t say anything and I just
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snuck in while the water came out of my eyes unchecked. My aunt took
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a picture and told me that he was my dad, that he really liked
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the theater and since boys he was always doing street plays for neighbors with his
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friends. In that picture I was already in college in a more professional group.
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He was dressed in a coffee suit and his face was made up with
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black and red lines like in the Chinese opera. Like that imaginary friend who
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had visited me all these years, I never heard from Emilio again. I
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hope he' s okay. In fact, I always thought it was okay,
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that maybe I had just run away, but as an adult, my
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mother Angelica told me one day that, when she came to pick me up
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with that sacristan, he strongly charged her to approach religion. The three aunts
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were not very well known in that colony and, apparently, what I had
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loaded in those rags tonight were, according to the words of that man,
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three pairs of skinny legs and watery gelatinous legs that, when contact with the
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air, when it unwrapped them, crumbled as if they were made of sand.
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She couldn' t see them anymore. But what is true is that
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with my mother Angelica I also began to pray the rosary sometimes and when reading
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the Bible I realized that what my aunts made me read and repeat was not
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in any way the Christian Bible or the traditional rosary. What we repeated over
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and over again were strange prayers to animal gods, gods that sometimes looked like
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dogs or goats and to which we made unintelligible praises that I refuse to repeat
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to this day. They were very strange things and it is clear that they
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were things of the devil, things that at that age made us pronounce and
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that we, in our innocence, did not know what they meant. But
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that' s exactly why I know it didn' t bear fruit in our
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lives, because we didn' t do it with evil. It was the
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worst experience I' ve ever had, although I also lived very good times
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with Emilio and I appreciate that. To this day, my father was always
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with me always took care of me, although I never saw him again as
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an adult, but I know he' s still here, he' ll
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always take care of me, and I' m sure my mother too and
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it' s because of them that I' m here now. Anonymous accounts four